Did you know ?? Bangalore Trivia !

World is getting miniaturized, becoming smaller, running faster and also getting abbreviated. Abbreviations run in our blood. Today’s movies have short names. Viz, DDLJ, K3G, RDB. Just look at the abbreviations we use in our daily chat. LOL, BRB, BTW, OMG, WTF, ROFL, JLT, PPL, TMR and so on. Some write just ‘K’ for ‘OK’ and ‘S’ for ‘YES’.(I hate people writing KEWL for COOL. It has equal number of alphabets and sounds way too more complex than COOL). But we hardly worry about the expansions of the abbreviations we use. I kind of hesitate or dislike using abbreviations until I know their expansions.

When I meandered on the streets of Bengalooru I had seen many locations with the abbreviated or short names and hardly people knew their expansions. I did bit of research to find the expansions of the abbreviated locality names in the city. Listing some of them below.

BTM Layout --> Bhyrasandra Tavarekere Madiwala Layout
HSR Layout --> Hosur Sarjapur Road Layout
RPC Layout --> Railway Parallel Colony Layout
JP Nager --> Jayaprakash Nagar
RT Nagar --> Ravindranath Tagore Nagar
VV Puram --> Visvesvarapuram
JC Road- --> Jayachamarajendra Road
SJP Road --> Silver Jubilee Park Road
SP Road à Sardar Patrappa Road
RV Road --> Rashtriya Vidyalaya Road
Rajaji in Rajaji Nagar --> C. Rajagopalachari
SC Road --> Subedar Chatram Road
KH Road (Double Road) --> Kengal Hanumathaiah Raod
AV Road --> Alur Venkatarao Road
NR Colony --> Narasimha Raja Colony
KR Puram --> Krishna Raja Puram
DVG Road --> DV Gundappa Road
T in Jayanagar 4th T Block --> Tilaknagar (not sure of this)

There are loads of other areas with abbreviated names but I haven’t yet figured out their expanded forms. They seem not too popular. Listing some of them below. Try if you can expand some of them.

BK Nagar, CKC Garden, CMH Road, GK Temple Street , GKW Layout,
HBCS Layout, HBG Layout, HKK Lane, HGG Layout, ITC Colony, RK Layout, RR Layout, OPH Road, OTC Road, KHB Colony, MR Palya. OK. Enough. The list doesn’t seem to stop. I’m tired of dealing with these names now. Let me GTHOOH(Get The Hell Out Of Here ) :-)